Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0284 - Kant and German Idealism

Immanuel Kant revolutionized philosophy by arguing that human knowledge does not grasp the world as it really is, but only the world as it corresponds to categories and forms imposed on it by the human mind. Kant's successors pushed this idea further, moving toward the view that absolute reality is essentially ideal, mental, or spiritual. In this course, we will begin with an examination of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, followed by a study of key texts by J.G. Fichte, F.W.J. Schelling, and G.W.F. Hegel. The focus will be on epistemological and metaphysical issues, though we will touch upon moral and aesthetic issues as well.

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